There are 27,190 projects available.
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South africa
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Biodiversity
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2012
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50,000.00
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: SAF/SGP/OP5/Y1/STAR/BD/12/02 |
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The project is focused on securing local food sovereignty, climate change resilience and protection of and access to biodiversity for marginalised indigenous communities in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province. Activities include strengthening ( ... )
ional agricultural knowledge and seed saving practices, securing land, cultural and ecological rights; enabling inter-generational transfer of knowledge culture, biodiversity and livelihood
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Nigeria
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Biodiversity
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2012
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32,000.00
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: NGA/SGP/OP5/Y1/CORE/BD/12/04 |
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The project (Capacity Building for Forest Rehabilitation In Urhonigbe Forest Reserve Edo State) seeks to compliment the Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) Project and consolidate the initial Capacity Building for Forest Rehabilitation project in ( ... )
gbe Forest Reserve. The project was designed to address the issue of degradation of Urhonigbe Forest Reserve, which has happened over time through uncontrolled and unsustainable agricultural practices, unsustainable land management, unsustainable forest resources exploitation and unsustainable animal grazing. The goal of the project is to reduce the level of unsustainable practices and illegal
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Liberia
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Biodiversity
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2012
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25,000.00
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP5/CORE/BD/12/06 |
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The objective of the project is to build the Capacity of the locals in Biodiversity Conservation and to the habitat of the Monkeys in Kokoyah District Bong County. The project will also identify alternative source of livelihood and avoid relying on ( ... )
rest for livelihood, thereby saving the forest losing its critical endangered biodiversity.
CRITICAL FACTORS FOR PROJECT SUSTAINBILITY:
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? Local capacity built to protect the Monkeys sanctuary
? The project area become a tourism site
Alternative livelihood programme established
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Kyrgyzstan
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Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Mitigation
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2012
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25,000.00
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: KYR/SGP/OP5/CORE/CC/12/03 |
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The main project idea is to maintain sustainable environment in the buffer zone of the Park through raising awareness and increasing capacity of local population in biodiversity conservation be developing environment friendly tourism, participatory ( ... )
ory of flora and fauna, involving the local population in restoration of the Park's infrastructure, and participation of local population in the activities aimed at biodiversity conservation.
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Iran
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Biodiversity
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2012
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2,000.00
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: IRA/SGP/OP5/STAR/BD/12/PG04(PG36) |
The project activities are:
?Develop a baseline report
?Develop a proposal based on the baseline report
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Tanzania
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Biodiversity
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2012
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27,818.00
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OP5 - Y2 (Jul 12 – Jun 13)
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Project Number: TAN/SGP/OP5/Y2/STAR/BD/12/02 |
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CONTEXT;
CADECT has been working to support other conservation groups to establish tree nurseries in Arusha Municipal; It has trained about 10 groups since 2011 and have well establish tree nurseries along Impala Hotel road. CADECT is now ( ... )
ing to Arumeru and Monduli. Once this organization receives the funds requested, it will be able to train more groups and thus expand the tree nursery services which in turn will facilitate increased tree planting among communities..
PROJECT PRIMARY OBJECTIVES;
? To provide training on poverty eradication strategies
? Promote tree planting
? To improve indigenous beekeeping through
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Nigeria
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Land Degradation
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2012
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24,170.00
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: NGA/SGP/OP5/Y1/CORE/LD/12/16 |
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The project seeks to address the problem of desertification and land degradation in Gangara community through large scale tree planting to regain degraded land and build capacity of farmers in farmland and simple environmental management skills. ( ... )
ommunity shares borders with Katsina State which is being ravaged by drought and desertification. This problem is aggravated by wanton felling of trees without any efforts by anyone: government or community to replace them, there has been a consistent decline in the amount of land covered by green grass whenever they appear in their season and there were also complaints about Fulani cattle nomads
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Botswana
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CapDev
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2012
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50,000.00
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: BOT/SGP/OP5/CORE/CD/12/04 |
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The overall objective of the project is to build capacity of grantees on GEF SGP procedures. This will be bolstered in capacity building workshops to address the knowledge needs of SGP grantees and other civil society organizations. The specific ( ... )
ives of the project are to:
i. Enhance the capacity of grantees to implement the projects financially supported by the programme;
ii. Help grantees to sharpen the financial and project management skills to enable adherence to the reporting requirements of the programme;
iii. Help grantees to assimilate and integrate project outputs into their internal processes for sustainability, improved
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Nigeria
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CapDev
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2012
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48,000.00
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: NGA/SGP/OP5/Y1/CORE/CD/12/15 |
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The project seeks to build the capacity of the civil society organizations, especially grantees of the SGP in Nigeria to engage and respond to key environmental challenges. Capacity development will focus on promoting the engagement of the civil ( ... )
y in global environmental consultative processes; how to generate, access and use information and knowledge; supporting participatory processes in policy and legislation development; raising awareness and support for the implementation of convention guidelines; and monitoring, evaluating and documenting environmental impacts and trends. Project Activities will include: Consultation, monitoring
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Palestine, State of
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2012
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27,000.00
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: PAL/SGP/OP5/Y1/CORE/CC/2012/07 |
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Capacity development project for the community on the importance of biogas and its contribution on the climate change.
The main project activities are: construct 20 biogas units ?based on Thomas Calhane design?, Distribute 15 biogas units for ( ... )
s and five biogas units for schools in Jericho and Tubas Governorates.
Conduct capacity development training for 150 ? 200 farmers for about 2 to 3 hours on the importance of sustainable development, biogas and climate change. In addition to that, publish a colorful booklet on how to construct a biogas system and its impact
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Trinidad and tobago
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Biodiversity
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2012
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37,041.85
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: TRI/SGP/OP5/Y1/CORE/BD/12/02 |
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North East Sea Turtles (NEST) is a small-scale environmental community based organisation (CBO) based in Charlottevillethat aspires to protect the natural environment of the sea turtles in the North of Tobago.As one of the only locations on the ( ... )
to see three nesting marine turtle species frequent the beaches ? the Leatherback, Dermochelyscoriacea (Dermochelyidae), Hawksbill, EretmochelysImbricata, and Green, CheloniasMydas (both Cheloniidae) ? Charlotteville has the unique potential to diversify her economy into eco-tourism through NEST. However, environmental literacy is desperately concerning; Despite legislation stating otherwise
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Trinidad and tobago
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CapDev
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2012
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23,916.90
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OP5 - Y2 (Jul 12 – Jun 13)
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Project Number: TRI/SGP/OP5/Y2/CORE/CD/12/02 |
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Since 1995, GEF-SGP has provided funding and technical support to more than 80 civil society projects in Trinidad and Tobago in an effort to promote positive national change in the six GEF SGP focal areas. In spite of the availability of these ( ... )
ces, many CSOs remain trapped in a vicious cycle where lack of awareness and capacity prevents them from accessing the full range of financial and technical support that is potentially available to them and lack of organisational capacity (financial and human resources, skills and equipment) prevents them from implementing their mission, programmes and projects effectively. This situation is
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Suriname
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Biodiversity
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2012
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50,000.00
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: SUR/SGP/OP5/CORE/BD/12/04 |
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This project aims to strengthen the capacity of the Indigenous women who extract oil from the Krappa nuts living in the Apoera village.
The methodolgoy of extracting the oil, is a very old tradition of the Indigenous, passed on from generation to ( ... )
tion. The Centre for Agricultural Research from the university will support this project, training the local people on optimizing the extraction methodology of the krappa oil, supporting in branding and marketing of their products, as well as recruiting young local women to learn this tradition of extracting the oil.
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Namibia
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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2012
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50,000.00
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: NAM/SGP/OP5/CORE/BD/11/20 |
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The project aims to increase small scale rural farmers' incomes and diversify their livelihoods through the commercialization of Chilli in a such a way that it converse wildlife habitat through the use of the improved farming methods (Conservation ( ... )
lture) and promotes human-wildlife conflict mitigation through the availability of chilli as a wildlife
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Bhutan
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2012
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23,050.00
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OP5 - Y2 (Jul 12 – Jun 13)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/Op5/Y2/CORE/CC/2012/10 |
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Choki Gyatsho Institute is a small Buddhist institute in Samdrup Jongkhar Dzongkhag, where wood consumption is very high. The wood is used for almost everything, it is wood is used for cooking, heating, washing, cleaning and taking baths. The ( ... )
ute uses over 168 full grown trees as fuel wood for cooking causing huge biodiversity loss and damage to environment hence accelerating climate change through emission of greenhouse gases. Therefore, there was an urgent need to reduce unsustainable use of fuel wood by initiating other environment friendly and efficient source of energy sources for cooking, waste management to ensure protection of
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Iran
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Land Degradation
Land Degradation
Land Degradation
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2012
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25,000.00
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: IRA/SGP/OP5/STAR/LD/12/24(163) |
Background on CCAs and SGP support to them
Iran, like many other countries, has innumerable CCAs that are increasingly being understood, recognized and supported. The lack of such understanding in the past has meant that tribal communities have ( ... )
cing many problems that threaten the ecological and social integrity of their territory-based CCAs and livelihoods. In recent years, following the national and international efforts for the recognition of CCAs and community rights, as well as the formation of tribal community investment funds and their federations and unions?particularly the pioneering role played by the SGP? conservation cum
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Costa rica
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2012
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20,000.00
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: COS/SGP/FSP/OP5/CC/12/29 |
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En Gran parte de las granjas porcinas en Costa Rica no existe un adecuado manejo de las materias sólidas. Los desechos emitidos en estas granjas representan un alto riesgo ambiental, tanto por la generación de gas metano? uno de los gases que ( ... )
an el efecto invernadero y que contribuye al calentamiento global de la Tierra? como de salud, ya que generalmente en las zonas rurales las porquerizas se ubican relativamente cerca de ríos y quebradas, funcionando los afluentes como vertederos de estos desechos y demás aguas residuales. Además del daño ambiental, por consecuente contaminación de las aguas, esta actividad también genera
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Costa rica
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Land Degradation
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2012
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150,000.00
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OP5 - Y2 (Jul 12 – Jun 13)
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Project Number: COS/SGP/FSP/OP5/Y2/DT/12/72 |
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Debido al cambio climático la época seca ha tendido ha incrementarse, razón por la cual se ha visto afectado severamente el crecimiento de los pastos, lo que ocasiona pérdida de peso severo del ganado y en algunos casos altas tazas de mortalidad ( ... )
nos, con lo cual, se reduce el ingreso neto de las Familias y por ende se baja el nivel de vida de las mismas.
La ganadería de carne y doble propósito, se implementa en muchas ocasiones en suelos no aptos, generalmente de las clases VI, VII y VIII, lo que trae como consecuencia, problemas graves de erosión, el deterioro del recurso hídrico así como la afectación negativa de la flora y de
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Costa rica
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2012
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43,000.00
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: COS/SGP/FSP/OP5/CC/12/27 |
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El presente proyecto pretende disminuir la emisión de estos gases mediante la construcción de biodigestores que posibiliten el tratamiento adecuado de esta materia orgánica de tal manera que se produzca y queme el biogás producido.
El biogás ( ... )
do será utilizado por las familias de los productores en actividades domésticas como la cocción de alimentos, con la consecuente disminución de la demanda de leña y del gas propano derivado de la actividad petrolera.
La utilización de este biogás tiene varios impactos benéficos tanto a nivel del núcleo familiar como de la sociedad, entre los cuales podemos citar: una disminución de
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Costa rica
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Land Degradation
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2012
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50,000.00
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: COS/SGP/FSP/OP5/DT/12/23 |
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La Comisión Asesora sobre Degradación de Tierras (CADETI), creada mediante decreto ejecutivo No. 35216-MINAET-MAG, promueve la aplicación del Programas de Acción Nacional de luchar contra la Degradación de la Tierras y la Sequíaen Costa Rica ( ... )
e la Convención de las Naciones Unidas de Lucha contra la Desertificación y la Sequía- UNCCD. Este, propone intervenir en una cuenca pilotoaltamente degradada. CADETI actúa como propulsor y facilitador de varios proyectos comunales. Las acciones técnicas, de comunicación, educación ambiental y la promoción de espacios participativos y generación de conocimientos que se deben realizar en
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